mplayer2 2.0 has been released. Of particular relevance to this forum is its VDPAU support, which is better than in any other current video player.

VDPAU-related improvements over MPlayer 1 include:
- support for video framerates equal to or higher than display refresh rate
- support for VDPAU frame timing feature
- improved VDPAU performance due to better frame buffering and texture handling
- code to reduce jitter with frames that could be timed just before or after a display refresh
- support for studio level output
- ability to switch YUV colorspace at runtime
- several bugfixes
- ability to handle frames added by VDPAU deinterlacing properly (framestep works for example)
- support for configuring default VDPAU deinterlace mode without forcing deinterlace to be enabled